Baseball Quotes

I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball.
Pete Rose

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Wes Westrum

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.  I’ll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
Jaja Q

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
Bill Veeck

There are three things in my life which I really love:  God, my family, and baseball.  The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Al Gallagher

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
Cy Young

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon

Baseball is religion without the mischief.
Thomas Boswell

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
Bob Veale

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Sandy Koufax

Poets are like baseball pitchers.  Both have their moments.  The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

I didn’t get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
Wade Boggs

The other sports are just sports.  Baseball is a love.
Bryant Gumbel

Baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

I don’t mind catching your fastball at all. Naturally, I’d want to have a glove on in case you might be having an especially good day.
Gene Green, to pitcher Jim Brosnan

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.
Roy Campanella

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Ted Williams

In baseball, you don’t know nothin’.
Yogi Berra

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Wes Westrum

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
Robert S. Wieder

The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play.
Reggie Jackson

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barber

You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Albert Einstein

Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Casey Stengel

I’m not an athlete. I’m a professional baseball player.
John Kruk

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

He’s a remarkable catcher, that Canzoneri. He’s the only defensive catcher in baseball who can’t catch.
Casey Stengel